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Best Current Workers Of The WWE Style

I’m sure some of you have heard references to the different styles of wrestling without really understanding what they mean. For instance if Catch As Catch Can is referenced it means they are talking about the using hooks and holds to control the body in a Greco Roman Style in order to force positioning and […]
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on August 14, 2012

The Best Wrestlers To Never Be World Champion

  I was recently watching some wrestling from the past online (any listeners to our podcast will be shocked!) and Jim Ross put over that fact that, at the time, Rob Van Dam was the best wrestler to never have won the world title. As well all know, Rob would win the title at the […]
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Comparing WWE 2012 to WWF 1995

Recently on our We Talk Wrestling podcast I compared TNA Impact of 2012 to the early days of WCW Monday Nitro. I did this to point out that, while there were no breakout angles, Nitro felt like a fresh alternative show to the stagnant Monday Night RAW. Fast forward 17 years later and Impact is […]
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Is there hope for Wrestling? (Flashback to February 2007)

I just found this blog from 2007 that I wrote on Myspace (remember that thing?). I thought I would put it up and reflect on how the more things change, the more they stay the same. Here it is: So I just finished watching the first period of the Calgary Flames vs Detroit Red Wings […]
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Please Come Home Chris Jericho

In the early expansion of the Rock N’ Wrestling era Vince McMahon built his promotion around Hulk Hogan. Yes he was fortunate to have some other talented acts such as Roddy Piper, Randy Savage and Bobby Heenan but his strategy was to bring in stars such as Cindi Lauper and Mr.T to place the spotlight […]
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on August 30, 2011

Why The Undertaker & HHH was great and MMA can’t match it

  They may not be as young as they once were, or as strong, fast or athletic, but Undertaker and Triple H showed the most valuable tool a pro wrestler can have is a mind for the business that understands how to tell a story.   Watching it (twice now) I found myself noticing how […]
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on August 10, 2011